Feed-cutter.



N0. 830,951. PATENTED SEPT. l1, 1906y D. L. WOLF.

FEED GUTTER.

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FEED-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

Application filed February 10,1906. Serial No. 300,501.

To (1J/Z whom it may concer-71,:

Be it known that I, DAvrs LEVI WOLF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Archer City, in the county of Archer and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed-Cutters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in devices for cutting fodder, and comprises, specifically, a pivotal knife mounted so as to shear as it rocks, with a cutting edge, and provided with series of cog-teeth about a portion of its circumference designed to engage with the cogewheel operated by hand-power.

My invention consists in various other details of construction and arrangements Vof parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawing, in which I have shown a perspective view of my invention.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawing by letter, A designatesastationary frame having a bracket-arm B fixed to the ends thereof, with a space intervening between said bracket-arm and said frame A.

C designates a shaft which is journaled in registering apertures in said frame and bar, and E designates a cutting-knife which is keyed to said shaft and is positioned in said space. The cutting edge E of said member is adapted to shear against the edge of said bracket-arm. Rising from said frame and bracket-arm are the standards F, with a space F between the same, whereby the knife may turn therein, and the adjacent edges of the standards serve to hold the fodder or other material to be cut stationary, while a draw cut is effected by the peculiar shape of the cutting edge of the knife as the latter turns upon its pivot, being actuated by the double-armed lever, which drives the gear-wheel which meshes with the teeth of said knife.

By the provision of the apparatus shown and described it will be noted that a simple and efficient means is afforded whereby grain, fodder, or any other objects may be conveniently cut, and owing to the gear connections shown a powerful leverage is obtained.

What I claim is- 1. A fodder-cutting apparatus comprising a frame having a laterally -projecting bracketarm with a slot therein, a shaft mounted in the walls of said slot, a cutting-knife mounted on said shaft and having a curved edge, geareteeth about a portion of the edge of said knife, a cog-wheel mounted upon said bracket arm and in mesh with the teeth of said knife, and a handle secured to and adapted to turn said cog-wheel, as set forth.

2. A fodder-cutting apparatus comprising a frame having a laterally-projecting bracketarm with a slot therein, a shaft mounted in the walls of said slot, a cutting-knife mounted on said shaft and having a curved edge, gear-teeth about a portion of the edge 0f said knife, a cog-wheel mounted upon saidnbracketarm and in mesh with the teeth of said knife, a handle secured to and adapted to turn said cog-wheel, and standards rising from said bracket member and spaced apart, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVIS LEVI WOLF.

/Vitnesses:

LoUIsA V. HUTTON, G. T. SHARP. 

